A SCOUT leader, who infamously filmed himself pushing over an ancient 907kg sandstone rock with his bare hands, had lodged a lawsuit a month earlier stating he was disabled.

Glenn Taylor, who helped destroy a 200 million-year-old goblin sandstone formation in Utah's Goblin Valley State Park last week, filed a personal injury lawsuit last month claiming to have been disabled after a car crash four years ago, KUTV reported.

After the 2009 crash the Scout leader claimed he's "endure(d) great pain and suffering, disability, impairment, loss of joy of life," according to his lawsuit filed against the father of the then teen driver responsible for that crash.

Yet in his own video, Taylor can be seen having a great time destroying part of history.

"We did something right, the wrong way," Taylor said, defending his destruction of the Jurassic-era rock that after millions of years he said was just waiting to fall down and hurt someone.

In the video Taylor, his son and fellow trooper leader Dave Hall are seen high fiving and cheering after the sandstone's destruction.

Alan Macdonald, the father of the 2009 teen driver, is unhappy as the historians.

"I was just a little surprised because he looks like a fairly strong, able-bodied guy to me," MacDonald told KUTV.

"He's climbing over other rocks," says Macdonald, watching the video.

"Then he lines up, gets leverage and pushes that big old rock several times before he finally pushes it over, ... then he turns and twists and high fives and yucks it up and flexes his muscles - he just doesn't look like a terribly disabled person to me."

It was MacDonald's then 16-year-old daughter who was said to be at fault for the crash, which involved several vehicles. No-one was taken to hospital.

Taylor approached by KUTV from outside his car said: "You didn't see how hard I pushed."

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